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Edvard Munch specialists. Norwegian Fine Art.
Auction Wednesday November 27 2019 at 18:00
The Annual Norwegian Edvard Munch Sale 2019
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Sigbjørn Obstfelder
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Munch, Edvard(1863-1944)
Sigbjørn Obstfelder

Intaglio print printed in black on medium heavy cream paper
Sheet: 450x315 mm Image: 169x127 mm
Signed in pencil lower right: Edv. Munch

Printer's signature in pencil lower left: O Felsing Berlin gdr.

1897
Woll 97 b).

Estimate
NOK 60,000–80,000USD 6,500–8,600EUR 5,800–7,800

Auctioned Wednesday November 27 2019 at 18:00

Hammer price NOK 100,000

LITERATURE: Gerd Woll: Edvard Munch – The complete graphic Works, Oslo 2012.

Sigbjørn Obstfelder (1866-1900) was a Norwegian poet who often wrote in a prose poetry form. He gave a lecture on Munch's art at the Students' Association in Kristiania in November 1895, and was a close friend of Munch for many years.

Cf. also cat. nos. 86 and 97. Woll under cat. no. 85, p. 114.